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Automated Mapping of Surface Oil Spill: Surface Physics and Remote Sensing Associated with Movement and Identification of a Slick

Implementing Organization

Florida State University

Overview

DWH Project Funding

$349,314

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Funding Organization

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Funding Program

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GoMRI Grant Program

Details

Project Category

Science

Project Actions

Physical Aspects Research

Targeted Resources

Human and/or Institutional Capacity

Project Description

Techniques will be developed to identify the boundaries of surface slicks from satellite scatterometers and to better model the transport of surface oil. Satellite observations alone are often too sparse in time and irregular in space to determine the location of surface oil with the fine resolution in both space and time desired for many applications; and models of surface transport have substantial errors. These approaches, which are interconnected through physics of air/sea interaction, will be combined to improve our ability to properly locate evolving oil spills.

Contact

Mark Allen Bourassa
850-645-4788
bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu
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Project Partners

None

Affiliated Institutions

None

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